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Reichenhaehia, I. t. 6; Tlip Garden. XXXI. (1887), t. 585), flowers larger 

 in all their parts ; Trejitham, tiowers produced six to eight weeks later 

 than in the other forms. 

 G'Telogi/ne en'staia was originally discovered by Dr. Wallich, in 

 1824. Its native home is in the lower Himalayan zone^ at elevations 

 ranging from 4,500 — 7,500 feet from Sikkim westwards through 

 Nepal as far as the 75th meridian, plants which had been collected 

 at Aroigadh at 5,000 feet elevation having been recently sent to 

 Kew from the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore ; * it is particularly 

 abundant on the range of hills opposite Cessagurri, in Nepal, 

 growing indifferently upon trees and upon bare rocks, often in full 

 exposure to the sun. It was introduced by Gibson, in 1837, but 

 we find no record of its having flowered in this country till the 

 spring of 1841, when Mr. Bai'ker, of Springfield, near Birmingham, 

 received a Knightian Medal for it at one of the meetings of the 

 Horticultural Society of London, where it attracted marked attention, 

 and has since by general consent been recognised as the facile 

 prhiceps of all Coelogynes. The varieties described above^ although 

 sufficiently distinct for horticultural purposes, differ in little from 

 the original type, except either in the size of the flower, the 

 colour of the disk of the lip and its fringes, or in the time of 

 flowering; they are therefore more strictly sub-varieties or mere 

 variations. The Arnigadh variety was sent to Kew by Mr. Duthie, 

 superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore, in January, 

 1886 ; the Chatsworth form was brought from India by Gibson, in 

 1837 ; hololeuca first appeared a few years ago in the collection 

 of Mr. T. A. Titley, at Gledhow, near Leeds ; Lemoniana first 

 appeared many years ago in the collection of Sir Charles Lemon, 

 at Carclew; intermedia is in cultivation at Syon House and 

 other places ; the Trentham form has long been cultivated in the 

 Duke of Sutherland's collection at Trentham Hall, in Staffordshire ; 

 of the origin of n^axima we find no record. 



Culhiral Note. — Ccdogyne cristata is a plant that may be easily cultivated 

 in glass structures vised for miscellaneous subjects, and as its chaste white 

 flowers are in general recpiest in winter and early spring, the following 

 cultural hints may prove acceptable. The temperature of a warm greenhouse 

 or intermediate house will be sufficient for it, although a summer temperature 

 of 15° — 21° C (60° — 70° F.) is by no means too high ; a light shading is 



* Gard. Chrou. 111. s. 3 (1888), p. 46-i. 



